Originally Posted by
HaleiwaFlyer
The devaluation didn't improve ex-US F award availability based on my experience. But I was able to get two DFW-DXB F awards for 2027 last week; but the days of readily available SFO-DXB are long gone.
It just takes work to search the calendar, day by day, and different iterations of city pairs until you find something. I don't search ex LAX/SFO anymore.
Nice work on DFW-DXB F for 2027. I also never look at LAX/SFO, only ORD. But even looking at routes outside of US, for example, GIG-DXB F, I couldn't find anything. And that was an exhaustive search, at least for the few months that would have worked for me. Same thing with other routes. I'm sure people are going to say GIG-DXB is a really popular route, as that seems to be the general reply these days, but most routes that people want to redeem miles for are going to be at least somewhat popular. Doubt many people are interested in redeeming for flights to Lagos.